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Lyr Req: Bonnie Please Don't Go

27 Sep 01 - 04:37 AM (#559735)
Subject: Lyr Req: 'She's Leaving'
From: GUEST,Kerry in Oz

Can anyone help me with the lyrics/performer for a song that contains the lines "She's leaving, She's leaving, She's on the ship now and leaving, Standing on the gangway ........"

27 Sep 01 - 07:02 AM (#559759)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'She's Leaving'
From: GUEST,mcpiper (cookieless just now)

gidday, the song is played on NZ radio now and again, maybe search of playlists might be a start. It was recorded by a NZ artist, can't think who just now, but I've always liked the song. Good luck.

27 Sep 01 - 07:48 AM (#559767)
Subject: Lyr Add: BONNIE, PLEASE DON'T GO
From: GUEST,mcpiper (cookieless just now)

Here are the lyrics
Here is where I found them

http://www.halltech.com.au/kj/kjdisclyric2.htm

BONNIE, PLEASE DON'T GO

She's leavin',
she's leavin',
She's on the ship now and leavin',
Standing by the gangway tossing streamers over her way,
I find it kinda hard believin',
Deceivin',
deceivin',
My subtle game of deceivin',
Standing here and waving, blowing kisses and behaving,
Like it doesn't matter much to see her leavin'.

CHORUS
I don't know what I don't know who,
I don't know where she's going to,
I only know she's going out of my life,
Across the sea of waving hands and Colonel Billie's farewell band,
I watch the disappearing face of my wife,
And I'm doing all I can to hide the sad confusion of my mind,
And to brace myself with every trick I know,
But though my lips are beating time,
To the words of Auld Lang Syne,
My voice keeps on defying,
Crying Bonnie please don't go.

That fool in me,
Persuading me,
To hide the broken pieces of my dignity,
When a simple reassuring word,
Just to reach out and comfort her,
Was all I had to say,
To keep her here with me.

CHORUS

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